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Category Archives: Primary 7
Kirk of Calder Choir Concert
A big thank you to our P6 and 7 pupils who attended the Kirk of Calder Christmas Choir Concert on Friday evening. They sang some Christmas songs and songs from their Alice show. A fantastic performance from our choir.
Primary 6, 7/6 and 7 Alice success!
Myself, Miss Anderson and Mr Renshaw were so proud of our pupils following the success of our Alice the Musical Show. To celebrate the hard work and dedication shown by all pupils, we held a movie premiere afternoon in class, sharing snacks and having a sing-along to our show, viewed through the West Lothian Council youtube channel. It was lovely to see how all of the different teams of pupils, pulled together to pull off a great performance.
Have look below at some of our cast photos taken on the night time performance…
Fantastic job again boys and girls,
Mrs Ross, Miss Anderson and Mr Renshaw
Christmas Lunch
Todat pupils and staff joined together to have our annual Christmas Lunch. A big thanks to our House and Vice Captains who served lunch to P1-3! Although, in return, Mrs McKenzie and Miss Burton served them their lunch! Thank you to our dinner ladies and to everyone who made the lunch run so smoothly.
Book Week – Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland has taken over P7/6! During book week we have been comparing and contrasting the original Alice In Wonderland with the modern adaptions and of course the original novel by Louis Carroll. We have discovered that books can let your imagination run free and inspire you to improve your own writing. The novel has been quite challenging due to the language and craziness in it, at times it can be hard to follow and very hard to visualise what Wonderland might look like. To help us do this we have been referring back to the original Disney version of 1951.
We have used the films, the novel and of course our own ‘Alice the Musical’to inspire us to create a new front cover or a scene in Alice in Wonderland.
to inspire us to create a new front cover or a scene in Alice in Wonderland.
Miss Anderson & Cailin McKenna
Author Visit
As part of our focus on reading this session, today P1, P5 and P7 had an inspirational talk from the author, Emma Mooney. She shared where some of her ideas for writing come from, really making us think about how a simple idea can be transformed into the beginning of a whole novel. We learned about the importance of an interesting and engaging first line of a story, and were challenge to try and recognise different novels from the first sentence of the book.
When asked what advice she would given aspiring authors, Emma shared that it is extremely important to have people around you who believe in you, and to stick to the ‘not yet’ plan by not giving up, even when things get tough. We thought that this was great advice for everyone, not just those who want to become authors.
Thank you to Emma for such an encouraging and motivating talk.
PSA Christmas Fair 2016
A big thank you to everyone who showed up on Friday evening to support our school by attending our annual Christmas Fair. The PSA did a fantastic job of organising the event, and bringing the whole school community together for the festive season. It was lovely to see new members of the PSA, previous and current parents/carers, pupils past and present, members of the community and staff join together.
The fair raised the amazing total of £2,007.92! This will be added onto our Playground Fund, which brings it to the grand total of £8004.07. A big thank you to everyone who supported this event.
Advent Assembly
Today Rev. Povey joined us to celebrate the start of advent.
Christmas Jumper Day for Jak’s Den
Today we wore our Christmas jumpers and brought in a donation for Jak’s Den. The Nursery to P7 raised £198.19 for Jak’s Den. Well done everyone!
Alice: The Musical
Tonight and yesterday afternoon Primary 6 and 7 showcased their creative talents through Alice: The Musical! This term, the pupils through their interdisciplinary learning context of Alice invested setting and characters, looked at imagery, wrote their own scripts, compared and contrasts different versions of Alice and watched Alice Through the Looking Glass as part of the Into Film Festival.
They brought together all their musical, dramatic and artistic skills to put together a performance of Alice. A big well done to all our Primary 6 and 7 pupils who all contributed to the show in different ways, and a big thank you to our upper school staff. Thanks to the PSA who provided refreshments at the concert and to Williamston Primary for lending us their costumes. Thanks to everyone who made it along to the performance to support the children.
West Lothian Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/westlothiancouncil/videos/10154200142190838/
Mr Anderson very kindly recorded our performance which is available on the West Lothian video channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqCLCya5doA
